Merry Christmas, everyone!

We've decided to run an Advent Calendar this holiday season as a way to give out to the community! It will be going for 15 days starting from the 11th through to the 25th!

Each day will be a selected game which has been generously donated by me or one of our community members!

Alongside the games of the day, there will also be a key for the Forager beta for each winner! So that's a FREE game and also access to the beta! Yay!

In the very last week, we will also be giving away Steam keys for the full Forager game!

To participate, you will need to be level 10 or higher on our Discord server. This can be achieved simply by chatting and you also get other rewards as you level up! You have the entire month to take part in this!

This event will be hosted each day in our Discord server, click here to participate!

Hey everyone!

Today I will be talking through some of the features I got to implement for Beta 7 as a result of the recent delay in Forager's release date.

Beta 7 will be released next week, on Thursday 13th of December. If you do not have a closed beta key, please read this!

Here are a few of the things I have added:



This is a new item crafted at the Flower Press that lets you put blocks of land anywhere you want! This is functionally the same as building a Bridge, but it allows for some prettier base building and customization. Additionally, you may even plant and harvest crops in these land tiles!





You may now assign Droids to most buildings by pressing right click when selection them:



This will solve the problem of having too many droids as they will just stay there "powering" the building (which grants it an increased bonus in efficiency!)

Once you need the Droid again for mining or enemy slaying, just come back to pick him up and continue your adventure!



Another new item! This one is a Gear piece found in the Skull Maze. It works like any other Rod in the sense that it has a charge but a very powerful effect. In this case, it summons skeletons!



Why would you want to summon skeletons? The big ones now drop a new item called the Great Skull:



It will be used for a very important crafting recipe. With the Necro Rod + Holy Relic + Magic Scepter, you can get some pretty crazy Great Skull farming!



These are new consumable items that replace Heart Containers and Energy Vessels found in treasure chests. Once you get a Spirit Orb, you can intermediately consume it from your inventory to gain a permanent bonus:

• +1 permanent Max HP
  
• +36 permanent Max Energy
  
• +1 permanent Damage
  
• +1 instant and permanent Level Up

Spirit Orbs can be found in big treasure chests, small skull chests and they can also be crafted in a new structure on the Magic skill branch:



Crafting Spirit Orbs requires a LOT of Great Skulls, so go find that Necro Rod if you want to speed things up!

And finally...



Yup, we finally did it! Upgrades for the Shovel item!



Each one of those provides new fun effects besides increasing the dig area:

• Water Shovel: 2x2 dig area, digging irrigates the dirt
  
• Nomad's Shovel: 3x3 dig area, digging always yields sand
  
• Royal Shovel: 4x4 dig area, digging always yields ores
  
• Robotic Shovel: 5x5 dig area, digging always yields rare items

Besides all of these additions, I am still working every day to try to include more things for Beta 7 and the final release in general. You may always check what I am working on in the official Forager Trello!

We had 116 entries!! This was such a fun idea that I think we will definitely have to repeat the contest for Christmas...





But anyway, here are the 9 winners! (in no particular order)

• Labatate#8954
  
• Kagamiix#5282
  
• Biscuit#0983
  
• stmadujahe#1693
  
• SteveCompany#0132
  
• oorin#1712
  
• ChiyuSoul#6188
  
• Squashpsi#2492
  
• MorphAll#2919

Additionally, we liked these artworks SO MUCH that we had to give them an honorable mention!

• Alexassassin#5576
  
• MuA#2149
  
• 🐺Lama🎃#9718
  
• Mox_G#6736
  
• Callhood_YT#8567
  
• !__ArikLoveFAFA__!#1689
  
• The BlackSalamander#6899
  
• FelisiaWolf#6375
  
• Exelons#9805
  
• IChrisserI#5810
  
• BLAKA-chan#1887

I know we said only 9 winners, but dammit look how awesome these are!

Winners should ask for their keys by sending me a DM on Discord.


Thanks to everyone that participated! And thanks again to Steini225#4400 for sponsoring this contest!


Hope to see you again for the next one!


If you haven't yet, make sure to join our discord server here! We do contests and giveaways all the time! ːsteamhappyː

Hey everyone!

Our fellow community member Steini225 and I have decided to start a Halloween Art Contest on our Discord server!





If you don't have a beta key yet, this will be your final chance to get it before the game releases in November!


To participate, draw a fun and spooky piece of fan art and upload it to our brand new #spooky-contest channel! That's it!


On November 1st, the contest will end and the moderators, Steini and I will choose our 9 favorite fan arts!


Winners will receive a FREE closed beta key!



Good luck and have fun!

Hey everyone!

Thank you so much to all of you who have tried the Forager closed beta and provided their feedback and bug reports!

We are currently giving away 10 keys for the closed beta on our Discord server!

The giveaway is sponsored by our generous patron Steini225 and will last for an entire week starting now!





You may additionally pledge to development on Patreon and get it right away!

Thanks to the generous support of our Patreon supporters, these are the things that have been achieved so far:

• The community has designed new skins and hats for the game!
  
• More free key giveaways have been happening, almost every week!
  
• Forager got new music and art!
  
• Forager will get FREE DLC after release!
  
• The secret demo of Impossible Dungeons will be released to the public next year!
  
• Forager will have multiplayer support starting next year!

People have completely obliterated all the Patreon page goals in less than a month! WOW!

It's finally time to unveil the latest Forager build. There is so much new content that needs testing and feedback - I need YOUR help now more than ever!

The closed beta version of Forager has a LOT of the new content, but due to high demand, I can't make it available to everyone. Only people that actively support development will get access to this build. Think of it as a reward for all the amazing support the community has provided for the development of this game!

There are two ways to get your closed beta key...


Read all the details here!

​50 people have won a FREE key for Forager on Steam!



Thanks to everyone who participated! We had a total of 123,379 real entries! ːsteamhappyː

Check the list of winners here: https://gleam. io/Gv9uB/forager-free-key-giveaway​ (delete the space between Gleam and .io, it's the same link as the giveaway)


Winners will be contacted by me personally this week, and I will provide them with the keys.

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We will indeed have at least one more giveaway like this (but maybe shorter...) before the game releases on Steam! Be sure to subscribe to the HopFrog newsletter​ so you are ready when it happens!

We are giving away a few free keys for the Forager closed beta!

Come help us test and improve the game: https://steamcommunity.com/app/751780/discussions/0/1693795812294624241/

Hey everyone!

The game is ALMOST content complete now, which means all the systems, mechanics and new stuff is implemented and working.

We still have about a month left before our content-complete deadline so I figured I would ask you guys what features would you like to see included in Forager.


Suggest whatever comes to your mind, I will pick the ones that people want the most and use this last month of content development to implement your ideas!



We are discussing this with the community right now!